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Parenting Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the parenting facet of life. Parenting-Blog: Bad-Parenting News Children Suffer From Bad-Parenting: November 17, 2007 by QUINCY PARKER  Not every parent is fit to be a parent, and the children of The Bahamas are in part suffering because of bad parenting, according to National Chairman of the Bahamas National Childrens Commission Rev. Harry Ward. He urged adult Bahamians to teach children that life is something to be celebrated, and not a chore to be borne – otherwise, he said, those children will become so angry they will be unfit to live in society. Rev. Ward was speaking on the Love 97 talk show "Issues of the Day" to promote "National Children’s Week," which ends today. "What’s happening far too much today is that children are being allowed to bring themselves up, and because they haven’t lived yet, they don’t know what the best choices are. The parents and the adults in their lives – that includes educators – need to be offering them the way forward," Rev. Ward said. "This is not something that happens to be an option if you want the best citizens." "It is necessary, in fact, for us adults to show the children the way of life in order that they may get the best out of life." The former principal of St. John’s College High School lamented the neglect and lack of regard he says some adults – whether parents or no – pay to children in The Bahamas. Parenting Blog: Bad Parenting News (Continued) "Not every parent (is a fit parent). As a matter of fact, in my estimation, we have relatively few parents today. We have thousands of mummies and daddies, but when you speak of parenting you’re speaking of persons who are prepared to make sacrifice in order to enable this orderly development of their children," Rev. Ward said. He spoke of "dire implications" of letting children spend hours watching television – his concern was that the children might potentially begin to mimic what they watch, or take on the attitudes and behaviours they see. "Persons, sometimes because of their job situations, find little, very little time to spend with their children, to get to know them, to bond with them, to enable them somehow to grasp the notion that they are children or people who are loved," Rev. Ward said. "As a result, of course, if you do not experience love you have little capacity to share love. You don’t even know what it is." Rev. Ward said many children in The Bahamas face this situation, and not because of "wicked" parents, but because those parents are preoccupied with getting "things." Parenting Blog Comment: Good parenting can make the kid whereas bad parenting can mar her/him for life! In order to educate children in the art and the science of life, we do need being a master of it. Are we? I doubt if we on earth are! I propose training both, mothers as well as fathers, in the science and the art of parenting before they give birth to their first child. It will be something akin to the science and the art of life as such. I also propose making it mandatory for the parents before they start bringing up their kids. But then, who will be the trainers? And where shall we find them on earth? Do we have an enough supply of the wo/men of knowledge and insight on this planet? I don't think we have. I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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